A Night at the Museum

Thursday evening (virtual Saturday) we met with a group of friends at one of our favorite restaurants - the Turkish Resaurant - for dinner. The food is fantastic, but the eating room is all tile so the sound just bounces all around. We are not the quietest group when together - we have too much fun.


Then we were off the National Museum which is a world-class museum. It is full of religious, natural and political history. Worth going to several times. (I'm the one in black!)

Portable Shopping

Last weekend we were down in the old sooqs when this street vendor came by. I asked his permission to take this picture. Our son-in-law G would have loved to have bought from this guy.



I noticed later that the front wheel of his cart was almost flat. It was a wonder that he was able to even push his cart.

Singing Stars

I have spent this summer making a new quilt for our oldest granddaughter's choir. Their ladies' choir has been invited to an international competition in China and they are on a major fund raising campaign. They did well with last year's quilt so . . .



I used some of our frequent flyer miles to fly to California to see the kids and grandkids and to present this quilt to A's choir. Here A and I are starting the unveiling in front of her choir.

A close-up of "Singing Stars"

I wish A's choir the best and hope they can make the best of this gift to them.

Family Picture

Family Picture taken June 2009

Day at Grandma's

A, C, S and MK came to spend the afternoon with Grandma. MK has on the Sweetpea bonnet Grandma had made for her.

MK helping herself to Grandma's cupboards.

MK is just learning to walk. She often looks like a drunken sailor as she tries to keep her balance.

MK has mastered going up and down the stairs.

C's karate kick - check out the toes!

S loves playing with the Toy Town that I made for my kids when they were little. We have 10 cars and 2 trains that live at Grandma's house for them to use with this.

What would a trip to Grandma's house be without some kind of treat. Here S is eating his raspberry sherbet which he chose over cookies 'n cream ice cream.

All done!

Sailing Above the Earth

When I took the Gionz Boyz to see my brother Ronald and his planes, I saw that at this small airport they had a glilder plane. I have always wanted to do this.

Long story made short: My brother arranged from me to make this dream come true.

Ronald and the glider pilot Stan are starting to set up the glider.

The pilots: Mike in the dark blue shirt flew the plane that took us up, Stan, with the light blue shirt, the pilot of the glider.

Attaching the rope leading from one plane to the other.

Stan getting the glider ready.

Ronald inspecting the glider. I sat in the front seat, Stan in the back seat.

The yellow plane, named "Ugly" is the one who took us up in the air.

Take Off!
Notice the yellow rope attaching the glider to the plane in front.
Also, notice the piece of yarn taped to the outside of the glider.
The pilot uses this to tell if he is flying straight.

Lining up with the runway.

Coming in for landing after 51 minutes sailing through the air.

I can't wait for Mick to be able to experience this.

Just Keeping Busy

Besides Mick's work, he has had his HC assignment changed and is now over the Family Indexing for our stake. He has been giving firesides and teaching people how to do this.

Besides teaching some classes on machine embroidery, I have been busy sewing away. I have completed Wedding Quilt #2.

Below is the quilt I have completed for an antique bed we have at home. Technically, this bed belongs to Allison, but for now it resides at our home. I guess the quilt will have to go with the bed when it returns to lives at Allison's. It is done with 1930's reproduction fabrics.



The guild here does a block of the month. The neat thing about the way it is done here, is that you keep your block and sew it into this. I will eventually incorporate this into one of my Wedding Quilts. To do the applique for this quilt, I digitized it in my embroidery software and then used my embroidery module to complete it.

This project is not complete. It is from a class I took through my guild learning how to do stained glass quilting.


This is one of my favorite projects. It is a machine embroidered quilt done on a silky polyester. My friend Evelyn did the stippling. I don't have enough of the pink fabric with me here to do the binding, so I will have to complete it this summer while I am home.